Field Guide to Room 214: read-along
Field Guide to Room 214 as a read-along for the projector: 10 pages, 929 words, level 10, grade 5.
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FIELD GUIDE TO ROOM 214, by Rafael Delgado, Observer. My grandpa Tano says you do not know a place until you can name what lives in it. Back home in Nebraska, I knew eleven kinds of sparrow. Here in the city, I know none, because there are 1,140 students and a language I believe is called Text. In three weeks I have said sorry to a door, a fire extinguisher, and a vending machine, which does not count as making friends, so I started a guide in the back of my math notebook.
Keys: ← → or Page Up and Page Down turn the page, Space starts and pauses the voice, Home and End jump, F fills the screen. Tapping the right side of a page goes on; the left side goes back.
How to use it
- Press Full screen (F) to put the book on the projector.
- Press Read to me (Space), or read it yourself and turn pages with the arrow keys or a tap. Pick the Pace that suits the class.
- After the last page, three questions come up to talk about.
About this book
- Level 10, Grade 5
- 10 pages, 929 words, about 7 minutes aloud
- A story, gentle
Related
About Field Guide to Room 214
Rafa has moved from a Nebraska farm town to a big-city school, and he starts a bird-book field guide to the creatures in the halls. It is funny until one entry goes wrong.
Words to preview
- observer (ub-ZER-ver)
- careful watcher
- specimen (SPES-ih-men)
- one example
- habitat (HAB-ih-tat)
- where it lives
- severe (sih-VEER)
- stern, strict
- correction (kuh-REK-shun)
- fixed mistake
Questions that fit any book
- What happened at the beginning, in the middle and at the end?
- Which page was your favorite? Why?
- How did the main character feel at the end? What tells you?
Questions
How long does Field Guide to Room 214 take to read aloud?
It has 10 pages and 929 words, so about 7 minutes at the Steady pace and a little less at Quick. If you stop to talk on the way, plan for more.
What reading level is Field Guide to Room 214?
Level 10, Grade 5. The library numbers its levels from 0 to 18 and puts the level of a book on its cover; level 10 sits at grade 5. A level is a guide for choosing, so look at the pages yourself.
Whose voice is it?
Your browser's own. Read to me uses a speaking voice already on the computer, so it sounds like that computer and works without a sign-in. Voices differ: some light each word as it is spoken, and some do not, in which case the highlight follows a steady pace instead. Some browsers use an online voice; if yours does, the browser, not us, sends the words of the page to its speech service. If no voice is installed, turn the pages and read it aloud yourself.
Do students need an account?
No. Nothing is asked of anyone and nothing is sent to us. Project the page, or share the link and let students open it on their own screens.
Where does this book come from?
It was written for Peabody's library. It is not copied from a published book.
Nothing you do here is sent to us. The voice is your browser's own. No sign-in, no ads.